My musical knowledge goes beyond hip-hop.
In the midst of all this great variety of subjects, an individual cannot attain to perfection in each, because it is scarcely in his power to take in and comprehend the general theories of them.
I probably have a 20,000-word vocabulary. I'll match my wits with anyone on literature, science and the arts.
By nature, by necessity itself, [primitive man] is encyclopedic, while civilized man finds himself confined in the infinitely small regions of specialization.
Besides numerous science courses, I had the opportunity to study philosophy, the history of architecture, economics, and Russian history in courses taught by extraordinarily knowledgeable professors.
You make sure you broaden yourself and have a good solid background in many different things. That's what you need to be a good scientist.
In the age of the specialist, the generalsit gets short shrift.
Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.
Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.
